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  • How to setup and use Intercom on iPhone, Apple Watch, and HomePod

    skippingrockskippingrock
    If all you have are iPhones in the house and no Home devices, will intercom work?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple releases second developer betas of iOS 14.2, iPadOS 14.2, tvOS 14.2, watchOS 7.1, ni...

    skippingrockskippingrock
    Nevermind, I just found that this has all been moved to the Dock and Menubar settings.
    Boy I was huffing! Finding my happy place… lol.

    Please, please tell me that the ability to customize the menubar clock has returned again!

    I am really not liking that I cannot customize the menubar clock in Big Sur.
    I use the Analog clock exclusively and when I do use the digital clock I always activate the seconds so that I can use it to time things and know when the exact minute is coming. Now I can do neither with this macOS. Also I do use the time announce setting when working to allow me to keep track of my time and switching tasks. Now I will have to set a bunch of calendar alarms or something else which is a waste of time!

    Also don’t like that the 24 hour clock is unified with the regional settings.
    I need them to return the ability to modify the clock display settings to what it was for so long!!!
    This is not iOS, this is macOS and these features are not extra, they are needed.
    Also mixing the clock with the widget activation is not intuitive.

    Using the analog clock widget is not an acceptable solution for displaying the seconds because you cannot use an app and see the widgets at the same time.
    I need to often use the menubar clock seconds to start recording or doing things at specific times and stopping them at specific times and seconds too. And now I won’t be able to do this. I’ll have to use an external watch or something which again is *not acceptable*!

    And yes, I've submitted this as Feedback, but I'm hoping others will too!
    bonobob

  • Microsoft contributes to Java port for Apple silicon Macs

    skippingrockskippingrock
    strangenoises said:
    Rayz2016 said:

    strangenoises said:
    rob53 said:
    Why? Java isn't going to make use of all the Apple-specific capabilities, it's just going to continue to run on Macs. What Java applications do people even use anymore?
    I code Java for a living, and Groovy too, increasingly, and Kotlin's on the horizon. All JVM languages. But I use Macs to do it, by *strong* preference. It's not the primary target platform for the products I'm working on (although it runs on it just fine), but it's the one I choose to use to do the work. I could fall back to Linux or Windows (in order of preference), but I'd rather not. And as long as I don't have to, I'm still in the market for shiny new apple kit on a regular basis. And there's lots like me.

    Of course part of me remembers Steve Jobs promising that Java was going to be an equal first class citizen for writing Mac apps, back when OSX came out. But <sigh/>.
    How is Groovy doing these days?


    I'm still pretty new to it so I don't really have a history of it in my head to compare it to. Was just looking for something for server-side scripting after Nashorn Javascript got deprecated. Actually like Groovy much much better.
    It’s Groovy! (Sorry, couldn’t resist;)
    watto_cobra

  • iPad Pro will be Apple's first Mini LED device, Kuo says

    skippingrockskippingrock
    retrogusto said:
    This page is prompting me to download some JavaScript. Why?

    Eek. Send this to the editor!
    doozydozenwatto_cobra

  • Sonnet unveils new PCIe card for Mac Pro that supports two U.2 SSDs

    skippingrockskippingrock
    Glad to see that Sonnet is still around and innovating. 
    watto_cobra